OJJDP releases new grant solicitations

OJJDP continues to take the lead in funding ground breaking mentoring research and services. Below is a list of the most recent, a review that might be helpful in preparing applications.

 

Practitioner-Researcher Partnership Mentoring Children

 

Deadline: May 27, 2014

“This demonstration program will support a practitioner-researcher partnership to develop and evaluate new mentoring practices to serve the needs of youth whose parents are incarcerated. Incarcerated parents and their children are a heterogeneous group, and associations between parental incarceration and developmental outcomes are complicated. However, research has shown that having an incarcerated parent can present individual and environmental risks for the child and increase the likelihood of negative outcomes. While mentoring has been shown to be an effective intervention for youth, more research is needed to understand how the unique needs of youth who have incarcerated parents are best supported through mentoring. Under this demonstration program, practitioners and researchers must partner to enhance existing mentoring programs to serve children of incarcerated parents and evaluate the new approach. (The program development/implementation and evaluation will be funded as two separate awards under the corresponding categories described below.) The mentoring model that applicants will develop and test should enhance their existing mentoring services, incorporate changes to each of the eight elements of mentoring practice noted below, and be implemented across multiple sites. The evaluation should be a rigorous, random assignment experimental design.”
Funder: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
Eligibility: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, private institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), city or township governments, small businesses, county governments, state governments, for-profit organizations other than small businesses, public and state controlled institutions of higher education.
Amount: Up to $2,500,000.

High Risk Youth Mentoring Research

Deadline: May 12, 2014

Mentoring has been shown to be an effective intervention for youth; however, more research is needed to understand how youth at high risk for delinquency are best supported through mentoring. The High-Risk Youth Mentoring Research program will support research and evaluations to further examine how certain characteristics, components and practices of mentoring programs can best support youth who are at particularly high risk for delinquency.
Funder: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
Eligibility: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, private institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), city or township governments, small businesses, county governments, state governments, for-profit organizations other than small businesses, public and state controlled institutions of higher education.
Amount: Up to $1,000,000.

Multi-State Mentoring Initiative (ongoing)

OJJDP FY 2014 Multi-State Mentoring Initiative

Eligible applicants are limited to multi-state organizations, defined as organizations that have
operated an established mentoring program for at least 3 years, have active chapters or
subawardees in at least 5 states, and will serve at-risk, high-risk, or underserved youth across
all 5 states. For purposes of this solicitation, two or more independent organizations that form a
collaborative to cover five states do not meet the criteria of OJJDP’s definition of a multi-state
mentoring organization. Applicants cannot be a national organization or a chapter or
subawardee of a national organization, which OJJDP defines as an organization that has active
chapters or subawardees in at least 30 states. Please note: This eligibility language represents
a change from the FY13 Multi-State Mentoring solicitation. It is possible that an organization
that met the definition of a “multi-state organization” under the FY13 OJJDP Multi-State
Mentoring solicitation may be considered as a national organization under this FY14
solicitation. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.

Deadline
Applicants must register with Grants.gov prior to submitting an application. (See “How To
Apply,” page 28.) All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 12, 2014. (See
“Deadlines: Registration and Application,” page 4.)

 

OJJDP FY 2014 Multi-State Mentoring Initiative Eligible applicants are limited to multi-state organizations, defined as organizations that have  operated an established mentoring program for at least 3 years, have active chapters or subawardees in at least 5 states, and will serve at-risk, high-risk, or underserved youth across all 5 states.

MENTOR – Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring Research – Outcomes for youth with varying risk profiles Research – AtRisk Youth